SSH 105 Chapter 1: SSH105 Chapter 1.docx

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: David Hunter

Document Summary

Chapter 1 nature and value of critical. Critical thinking is reasonable and reflective thinking aimed at deciding in what to believe and what to do. It demands that we have reasons for our beliefs and decisions. It involves distinctive procedures and methods (not just gut feelings)(handy tricks for figuring out when we have good/bad reasons) It requires thinking about what methods are appropriate: using these methods requires regular judgement. Critical thinking can help us to attain knowledge. Knowledge is justified, true belief: truth - discussed later (correct, belief: an attitude about how things are, what the facts are. Justification: this means that the belief is based on enough of the right kind of evidence. These three elements of knowledge are independent of each other (you can have 2 of them without the third) Justified (they have evidence), belief (they think they know how the world is); false (the world is not this way).